Five Years on …
In 2008, after fifteen years of editing these pages, I felt for the first time that we didn’t have enough of them—that we were turning away stories, poems, and essays I yearned to publish in The Kenyon Review. And the backlog was stretching toward a too-distant horizon as well, bulging with literature already accepted. It was time, our team of editors realized, to embrace an innovation we’d anticipated from the early days of the KR Web site: the creation of an electronic literary journal that we came to call KROnline.
